Lao Sze Chuan prides itself on being the "number one Chinese restaurant in the USA". It's a chain restaurant with about nine locations, most of them being in Illinois, and has an impressive menu of Szechuan dishes. This specific location in Urbana Champaign is one of the newer locations and just opened at the end of August 2017.
If you are unfamiliar with Szechuan cuisine, just know that it is really spicy. The Szechuan province in China has weather that is perfect for growing red peppers and therefore food that comes out of that part of China usually includes a lot of garlic or chili peppers. A special type of spicy called "Ma La", also known as numbing spicy, is really big in this kind of food and comes from Sichuanese pepper corns.
I've been to that part of China and the food here is actually really authentic. The green beans and twice cooked pork were my favorite dishes that I tried. The pan-friend meat buns were also good and had a very nice crispy bottom. However, I do wish the buns had more meat inside. Other than that, I have no complaints and I enjoyed everything from the soup dumplings to the mapo tofu to the pepper chicken.
I think the poor service other Yelpers mentioned could have been due to the fact that this location was very new. So, the management and servers were definitely working out the kinks and familiarizing themselves with the menu. I had no problems with my service when I was there a few days ago and my food came out relatively fast despite my 20+ person table ordering 30+ dishes at one time. In fact, the servers handled my large group's appearance really well and catered to us by moving tables together / apart based on our preferences.